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now, the chief strategist of romney's campaign, stu stevens, is describing why he lost. he wrote in "the washington post" today, quote, there was a time not so long ago when the problems of the democratic party revolved around being too liberal and too dependent on minorities. obama turned those problems into advantages and rode that strategy to victory. but he was a charismatic african-american president with a billion dollars, no primary, and media that often felt morally conflicted about being critical. how easy is that to replicate? in other words, the election was an anomaly giving republicans little reason to worry in the future. this morning stevens said mitt romney's ideas were right on, as he puts it. he's getting cool, he's right on in his talking. let's listen. >> i think that the ideas carried the day for us and that success that we had, though it obviously wasn't enough to win the race, was based on the candidate mitt romney and on his ideas. >> well, using that '60s language of right on, he isn't quite. he continued the outreach was the campaign's problem,
now, the chief strategist of romney's campaign, stu stevens, is describing why he lost. he wrote in "the washington post" today, quote, there was a time not so long ago when the problems of the democratic party revolved around being too liberal and too dependent on minorities. obama turned those problems into advantages and rode that strategy to victory. but he was a charismatic african-american president with a billion dollars, no primary, and media that often felt morally conflicted...
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that's something you can't tell because he's a different person sometimes in private. >> so stu stevens does d. address two things the romney campaign could have done differently. gli >> we should there done a better job reaching out to women voters.>> we should there done r job reaching out to women voters. we should have done a better job reaching out to hispanic voters. we should have done it earlier and in a more effective way. >> i want to ask you about the comment there directed toward american women. as a republican woman, what do you think the campaign could have done differently to attract the female vote? >> i think it wasn't so much what the romney campaign did or didn't do, but the obama campaign actually did an effective job of this war on women and that lures a lot of women away from our party. but we could have possibly included more women in the fray for the republican party. but the good thing about this is what stu mentioned, we recognize the fact that we didn't do well amongst women and latinos and we'll learn from these mistakes and work on the ground game, on the da
that's something you can't tell because he's a different person sometimes in private. >> so stu stevens does d. address two things the romney campaign could have done differently. gli >> we should there done a better job reaching out to women voters.>> we should there done r job reaching out to women voters. we should have done a better job reaching out to hispanic voters. we should have done it earlier and in a more effective way. >> i want to ask you about the comment...
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quote, if stu stevens' private advice for romney is as delusional as this op-ed, no wonder he lost. or this one. oh, for f-sake, my brain is burning with fire. that's the reaction for this year's republican presidential campaign chief strategist from conservatives. then there's one of mitt romney's republican primary rivals, jon huntsman, also now being torn apart by folks on the right for voicing his own critical comments about his party's process for choosing its nominee, this year. mr. huntsman this week told "the huffington post" quote, i looked on the debate stage and half were probably on fox contracts for half the year. you go out, write some books, get a radio gig or tv gig or something. and it's like, you say to yourself, the barriers of entry to this game are pretty damn low. on the fund-raising side of republican politics we have not heard hide nor hair from karl rove, basically since the election, since the election in which he spent $390 million conservative to elect mitt romney and a republican senate. that money is not coming back, and hey, maybe neither is karl rove.
quote, if stu stevens' private advice for romney is as delusional as this op-ed, no wonder he lost. or this one. oh, for f-sake, my brain is burning with fire. that's the reaction for this year's republican presidential campaign chief strategist from conservatives. then there's one of mitt romney's republican primary rivals, jon huntsman, also now being torn apart by folks on the right for voicing his own critical comments about his party's process for choosing its nominee, this year. mr....
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you see stu stevens taking out an op-ed in the washington post just today, brooke, talking about how losing is just losing, and that it is not a mandate to throw out every idea that this candidate expressed during the course of the campaign, and it is not an excuse to show what he called disrespect for what he calls a good man. so we're seeing a lot of mitt romney, not just from the former candidate, but from people around him as well. and so it is going to be interesting to watch all of that tomorrow. >> obviously we would love to be a fly on the wall in the room. we will not be there. but during his first post election press conference, the president hinted at some possible discussion points. watch. >> that's right. >> how can we make the federal government more customer friendly, how can we make sure that we're consolidating programs that are duplicative. how can we eliminate additional waste? he presented some ideas during the course of the campaign that i actually agree with. and so it would be interesting to talk to him about something like that. >> moving forward, jim acosta,
you see stu stevens taking out an op-ed in the washington post just today, brooke, talking about how losing is just losing, and that it is not a mandate to throw out every idea that this candidate expressed during the course of the campaign, and it is not an excuse to show what he called disrespect for what he calls a good man. so we're seeing a lot of mitt romney, not just from the former candidate, but from people around him as well. and so it is going to be interesting to watch all of that...
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respect and about the speech, you know, he has often talked about his speech writers along the way, stu stevens, one of his top strategists who put them together and a lot of talk about it at the republican convention and a couple things left off and critiques that will toed and never put it off on the strategist but always took full credit and full criticism for any of the speeches that he gave along the way and as we saw there in those images there was one key photograph of him on the plane with his ipad in front of him working on it himself and we talked about how he knew it right down to the number of words, 1,118 or something close to that. the word count on what he had prepared tonight. i suspect it won't be all that different from what he was going to say but will certainly interest to tweak it and often a more cordial tone to the president which he's gone after for quite some time and expecting in the room -- it's a tough room. you can see on the screen varying networks with the cheers and some of the reports coming in of this spontaneous reaction out in front of the white house
respect and about the speech, you know, he has often talked about his speech writers along the way, stu stevens, one of his top strategists who put them together and a lot of talk about it at the republican convention and a couple things left off and critiques that will toed and never put it off on the strategist but always took full credit and full criticism for any of the speeches that he gave along the way and as we saw there in those images there was one key photograph of him on the plane...